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" Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers. "
Nancy Gibbs
Democracy
Decision
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" When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak. "
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" There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads. "
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" Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults. "
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" Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson. "
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" I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly. "
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" There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going. "
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" The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place. "
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" Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline. "
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" All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score. "
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" As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it. "
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" In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in 2009 President Obama was praised for reversing it, even though his decision was arguably just as political. "
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" The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before. "
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Him
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" The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people. "
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" In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone. "
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" Time is valuable; people are busy. "
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" Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul. "
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" We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power. "
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" A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers. "
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" You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine. "
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" High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others. "
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" Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own. "
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" Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do. "
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" Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends. "
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" Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. "
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Were
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" Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide. "
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" I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold. "
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